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In the 1970s it was called 'Radical Chic': the toe-curling tendency of well-heeled liberals to consort with revolutionaries in the hope that the glamour of violence would rub off. The phrase was coined by the journalist Tom Wolfe in a satirical article he wrote for New York magazine about a fundraising party hosted for the Black Panthers by composer Leonard Bernstein.
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A judge has rescinded his female guard "no-touch" order for a Guantanamo Bay detainee, saying he can't use the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Guantanamo Bay previously obliged Abd al Hadi al Iraqi's demand that female guards not be allowed to touch him, but the judge who initially issued the "no-touch" order is now arguing that Hadi can't make use of the infamous Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which Hobby Lobby relied on in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A military judge attempted to speed up the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals by ordering the justices overseeing them to move to the US naval base in Cuba. Now one of those judges has ruled that the since-rescinded order was unlawful influence.
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Criticism: Home Secretary Theresa May launched a blistering attack on the human rights group Cage Theresa May last night launched a blistering attack on the human rights group Cage, saying no excuses could be made for the appalling crimes of Islamic State. In a statement to the Commons, the Home Secretary said: 'I condemn anyone who attempts to excuse that barbarism in the way that has been done by Cage.'
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A military judge ordered the Defense Department Monday to replace the overseer of war crimes tribunals at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, declaring that his ill-fated attempt to accelerate the cases amounted to unlawful influence. The judge, Air Force Col.
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While diplomatic relations with Cuba may be warming, the five 9/11 terrorists charged with masterminding the historic 2001 attacks against the US are stuck in judicial limbo after Chief Judge Army Col James Pohl froze the proceedings citing the Pentagon's order mandating all judges involved with trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba be transferred to the island for the duration of the proceedings. Judge Pohl said the government 's actions constitute the appearance of pressuring military judges to speed up the pace, something that usurps judicial discretion and compromises the military judges.
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In this Aug. 23, 2013 pool file photo reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, one of Guantanamo Bay's two courthouses is seen through a broken window at Camp Justice at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.
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The widow of a British man murdered by ISIS says she wants the terrorist who beheaded him captured alive and "put to justice," the Guardian reported Friday . Dragana Haines - whose husband David was the first Briton to be killed onscreen by ISIS in a propaganda video released in September - said she did not want to see the killer die in what he would consider to be an "honorable" death on the battlefield.
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For 52 excruciating minutes on Thursday, the BBC broadcast a stream of propaganda from the Muslim 'human rights group' Cage, blaming MI5 for the evil crimes of the Islamic State 'executioner' known as Jihadi John. Instead of condemning this psychopathic monster - identified as London taxi driver's son Mohammed Emwazi - Asim Qureshi, Cage's research director, had the effrontery to paint him as a victim.
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The Pentagon has completely backed off an order which would have forced judges to drop everything and move to Guantanamo Bay to speed up the pace of the trials, focusing instead on begging judge Vance Spath to drop the case. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work initially signed off on the order in January in what he says was an effort to forward the objectives of the Obama administration by moving the trials along.
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A military judge ordered an immediate halt Wednesday to proceedings in the Sept. 11 terrorism case because of a new Defense Department rule that requires him to relocate to the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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DISCRIMINATION against the Roma continues in Slovakia, while the rights of LGBTI people are also violated and no action is taken against police who engage in violence, according to Amnesty International Slovensko's annual report concerning the state of human rights in 2014. Lenka Machlicova from AI SK told the TASR newswire that the global annual report has ranked Slovakia along with the Czech Republic as countries in which discrimination in educating Roma children continues.
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A prisoner with multiple medical conditions including morbid obesity has been cleared for release from the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Pentagon says a review board determined it is no longer necessary to hold Tarek El-Sawah.
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Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Jihad Ahmad Diyab sits before an interview in Buenos Aires. Diyab, a former inmate of the US prison in Guantanamo Bay travelled from his new home in Uruguay to neighbouring Argentina in recent days on a mission to lobby the government to provide refuge to inmates still imprisoned in Cuba.
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Towers overlooking a U.S. detention facility are silhouetted against a morning sunrise at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Oct. 18, 2012. The 9/11 case judge on Wednesday froze pretrial hearings in the death-penalty case over a controversial Pentagon order requiring the judges to move permanently to this remote outpost until their cases are over.
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A military judge ordered an immediate halt Wednesday to proceedings in the Sept. 11 terrorism case because of a new Defence Department rule that requires him to relocate to the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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ARCHIVE PHOTO: Hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 flies toward the World Trade Center twin towers shortly before slamming into the south tower as the north tower burns following an earlier attack by a hijacked airliner in New York City September 11, 2001 A military judge has put the oft-delayed 9/11 trial on hold until the Department of Defense walks back an order requiring the judges presiding over the case to move to Guantanamo Bay in order to proceed with the trial. The Defense Department's interference stems from a controversial order issued in January requiring the judges in three active terror trials to relocate to the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Six former Guantanamo Bay prisoners sent to Uruguay as part of a push by President Barack Obama to close the U.S. military's prison camp in Cuba were "turned halfway into vegetables" during their detention, outgoing President Jose Mujica said on Wednesday. In an interview four days before his predecessor Tabare Vazquez takes office, Mujica said the six men lacked the strength to learn Spanish and integrate.
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Representative Jackie Walorski returned Tuesday night from a daylong, bipartisan Congressional Delegation to the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Members of the CODEL observed detention operations, received an intelligence overview and toured specific areas of the detention facility.
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A military judge has ordered an immediate halt to proceedings in the Sept. 11 terrorism case because of a new Defense Department rule that requires him to relocate to the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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